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Enlarge ImageRequest to buy this photoRajanish Kakade | Associated PressA suspect, his head covered, is escorted by police after being arrested in connection with a gang rape in Mumbai, India.

MUMBAI, India — Mumbai police said yesterday evening that they had arrested a third suspect in
the gang rape of a photojournalist who was attacked last week while on assignment.

“The third accused, Siraj Rehman Khan, was arrested a few hours ago and has been taken into
police custody,” said Madhukar Chaudhury, assistant police inspector at the N.M. Joshi Marg police
station in the Lower Parel neighborhood of Mumbai, where the case was reported on Thursday
evening.

The photojournalist, a 22-year-old woman, was assaulted by five men in Shakti Mills, an
abandoned textile-mill compound in the Lower Parel district of Mumbai, where she was taking
photographs for an English-language magazine.A male colleague who had accompanied her was tied up
and beaten, according to police reports.The attack, which echoed the fatal gang rape of a
23-year-old physiotherapy student in New Delhi in December, has sparked protests and outrage in the
Indian news media.

Early yesterday, Mumbai police made the second arrest in the case. Vijay Jadhav, 19, was
arrested in the Madanpura area of the city, said a Mumbai police officer, Vinod Singh.

The victim is being treated at Jaslok Hospital, where doctors said on Friday night that she had
suffered internal and external injuries but was in stable condition.

On Friday, the Mumbai police arrested one of the five suspects and said that they had identified
the others based on the woman’s testimony.According to reports in
TheTimes of India, the man arrested on Friday was identified as Chand Babu Sattat Shaikh,
alias Mohammed Abdul, who was described as an unemployed 19-year-old. He was reported to have
confessed to the crime and named the other men involved.

Mumbai police said more than 20 teams were searching the city for the remaining suspects.

“The probe is heading in the right direction, and we hope to arrest all other absconding accused
soon,” said Satyapal Singh, the Mumbai police commissioner, at a news conference in Mumbai
yesterday. He had said a day before that two of the five suspects had criminal records.

The
Hindustan Times reported that the five accused were all unemployed men who frequented the
mill area.

The incident has reignited debate in Parliament over violence against women in India.

“This country cannot afford to have our women and children insecure in the hands of those who
attack them,” Law Minister Kapil Sibal said on Friday.